Miraclon has appointed Andy Yarrow as commercial director and Joerg Kullwitz as commercial lead for a strategic Miraclon initiative that focuses on optimisation of customers’ gravure to flexo conversions. With these appointments, Miraclon's presence in India has been boosted. As per market pundits, the gravure to flexo potential is highest in India across all of Asia.
Grant Blewett, chief commercial officer for Miraclon, said: ‘Flexcel NX Technology is a proven platform of continued innovation that increases production efficiency, ultimately improving ROI and the financial bottom line of trade shops and converters.
Produced for luxury fashion brand The Rake, the entry won UK-based Victory and Caps a Silver award for its creative use of graphic design in a successful conversion to flexo from offset. Victory used a single Kodak Flexcel NX Plate to create the black-and-white, photographic-quality image, with its mix of highlights and dark shadows. The entry is an example of the ‘unboxing’
Introduced in 2021 for process printing, PureFlexo Printing controls unwanted ink spread and allows for greater latitude on press. Delivered as a new feature set for the Kodak Flexcel NX Print Suite for flexible packaging, today’s announcement enables flexible packaging printers to expand the benefits of PureFlexo Printing to higher volume anilox applications. Dr. John
The packaging and label converter, based in Hattar, required a plate imaging and processing system that could produce both flexo (60 percent) and offset (40 percent) plates. Flexcel NX System’s hybrid option met all its requirements. Khalid Aziz Shah, CEO of Raqam International Canada, KSA and Pakistan, said: ‘With two Flexcel NX Systems already installed at our production